The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-23
Montpelier and Vicinity.
B. BAILEY of Chicago is in town.

b. b. BAILEY of Chicago is in town.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GEORGE e. TAPL1N went
to Boston Tuesday.
REV. 7. P. FROST has been engaged to
deliver the Memorial day address at Barre
this year.
THE person who left small bundle on
the counter in this Office will please call for
the same.
Mrs. f. C. KEITH of Cleveland Ohio, has
been visiting at j. r. Langdon's for few
days past.
| THE Ladies' Missionary Society of Bethany
society meet with Mrs. DR.. Macomber to-
morrow afternoon.
DAVID L. SAUNDERS has sold his house
and lot ON the upper end of Barre street to
j. j. Pratt for 81 100.
REV. Mr.. WRIGHT is expected to preach
in the Morse school-house, East Montpelier,
next Sunday afternoon.
Miss BERTHA LITTLE, Seminary stu
dent, spent her vacation with Mrs. William
Dewey of fremont street.
II. S. EATON, a former student of the YER
mont Methodist Seminary, succeeds the late
Mr.. Towne as steward of the institution.
LADIES interested in the children's table
for the Easter sale will meet Saturday after
noon at two o'clock with Miss Helen Dewey.
REV. j. FRANK RHoADEs of Barre has
been engaged by Brooks Post, G. A. R., to
deliver the Memorial day address in Mont
peler.
IT is said that Frank Hoyt has sold his
tenement-house on fremont street to p. l..
Lyons, who is to move his family into the
lower part
THE auxiliary of Christ church in connec-
ton with the Indian Association will meet
Thursday afternoon at two o'clock with
Mrs. d. l.. Fuller.
w. S. FRENCH has moved into the house
recently vacated by l. r. Moulton and E
f. Richardson now occupies the tenement
in the Joseph Fisher house vacated by the
removal of Mr.. French.
SOME excitement was occasioned Satur
day afternoon by runaway horse on Elm
and State streets. 1t soon subsidized, how.
ever for the animal was stopped without
having done any damage.
" IT is not certain that our Methodist.
will succeed in securing Rev Mr.. Frost OF
Montpelier as their pastor, as their brethrer
in Providence r. l., are trying to get him,
st. JohnSb,ry Republicdn.
MEssRs. p. ROBERTS & Son have just
completed fine granite monument which
will be taken to London to mark the las
resting-place of Henry Stevens native o
Barnet Vermont, who died in England
short time since.
THE sale of seats in Montpelier for tn,
opera at Barre Saturday evening was 81
small that the special train announced t.
run was Cancelled. A few Montpelier ladies
attended the matinee Saturday afternoon
, returning by the 3: 45 p. NJ. train.
r THE Bethany Ladies' Reading" pleas
antly entertained few friends at the chape
last evening. Literary and musical selec
, tions by members and invited guests com
bined to form an enjoyable programme an,
, refreshments were furnished by the ladies,
: Mr.. A. w. EDsoN, superintendent o
= schools in Jersey City, N. j., who wa
= formerly principal of the Normal School a
Randolph, has favored us with copy Of hi
annual report 1t is quite a bulky volum
for a school report, and indicates that hi
position gives him enough to do.
= MONDAY was day of real enjoyment fo
. the pupils of the public schools and a dc
q. lightful opening of the short spring vact
~ ton. The crust was strong enough to su'
. tain the weight of the heaviest man an
z scores of youth were coastng on the SUI
t rounding hills throughout the entire day
b THE prospect at the present time for
a large crop of maple sugar is not fiatterinl
y Canada paper suggests that the suga
Il makers in the region where the snow is s
n deep can begin by tapping the trees at til
k top and, as the snow settles, the operatio
r of tapping can be repeated lower down.
s The government building the oil
Il barn formerly connected with the Goul